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25 November 2018
My flight from Kolkata to Dibrugarh departs at 1230 today. With all that heavy food over the past days, I thought I’d skip breakfast and go to the airport lounge and eat lightly until departure. Checking out around 0815, the hotel bill was INR1000 more than the INR7000 I had expected. At first I was […]
24 November 2018
Flower market & Howrah I Uber’ed to Mallick Ghat after breakfast for its flower market, located next to Howrah Bridge. Supposedly, photography of the bridge isn’t permitted but I stealthily took photos there (and got more brazen as I moved further away). The flower market was pretty colourful but the predominant colour was marigold. There […]
23 November 2018
Arrival We landed on time around 0100. Seated close to the front (because I paid, because I had been auto-assigned a bad seat), I was through immigration promptly. One stands high up on steps at immigration perhaps in order to access the fingerprint scanners that may have been introduced after the desks were made. A […]
22 November 2018
Wat Arun, Take 2 Today, I was determined to visit Wat Arun. I have a midday check-out and a midnight light to Kolkata. I was on my way to Wat Arun soon after breakfast. It was a lot more impressive than what I must have thought in April, to turnaround and leave even without entering […]
21 November 2018
Wat Arun was on my agenda today because I didn’t make it there in April. Again, I took the Chao Phraya Express from my pier Phra Arthit to Wat Arun pier, several stops away. Pulling in there, I had the distinct sense of déjà vu. Yes, I had been hopped off there before … and […]
20 November 2018
Because I had an unexpected trip to Bangkok in April, I had already done all I had wanted. But the time I had allocated for Bangkok now remains, because that April trip was booked after this one. I thought it would be a good idea to visit the Royal Barges Museum, a place I have […]
19 November 2018
My flight from Singapore to Bangkok Don Mueang departs at 1500. My aunt needed to go to the hospital for an appointment leaving the apartment at 0930. It was easy for me to leave the house with them. I pretended that my flight was 1300 and it was perfect for me. Getting a taxi from […]
18 November 2018
This is a growing collection of post-adoption photos of Nyoman’s life with us. She’s turned out to be a little “si betina” dragging in quite a few mice! She’s putting on quite a bit of weight too. Posted by Alex Chan on Monday, June 8, 2009
17 November 2018
I had a relatively early start from the apartment to get to the airport for the 0950 flight to Singapore. Being a weekend, I was being cautious in case it was difficult to get a Grab car. But it was all too easy and I ended up having an hour to kill landside before going […]